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/ 10 December 2005
They’ve spent the past year confronting many of South Africa’s problems head on, from the high incidence of rape to the fact that many schoolchildren battle hunger. They expected nothing less. These are the young men and women from the first batch of City Year South Africa service leaders.
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/ 10 December 2005
A Nigerian jetliner carrying 110 passengers and crew crashed on Saturday as it approached a southern city in stormy weather, killing 103 people. Seven people survived, officials said. Reports said the plane apparently overshot the runway during a thunderstorm. An airport worker described a horrific scene: ”The place where I’m standing now is scattered with corpses.”
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/ 10 December 2005
Kaizer Chiefs proved a little too strong for their bitter rivals Orlando Pirates in the Castle Premiership encounter played at a packed FNB Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Chiefs’ 1-0 victory was their second triumph over their Soweto counterparts this season after having run away with the first game 2-0.
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/ 10 December 2005
Andrew Strauss missed his deserved century on Saturday, but paceman Liam Plunkett (3-51) filled the role of super sub with perfection and led England to a 42-run victory over Pakistan in the first limited-overs cricket international. Strauss’s 94 helped England score 327 for four off their 50 overs.
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/ 10 December 2005
A United Nations conference agreed on Saturday to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and launch a dialogue between Kyoto members and the United States on long-term action for tackling the greenhouse gases that drive dangerous climate change.
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/ 10 December 2005
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) members Algeria and Kuwait said on Friday they support maintaining the extra two million barrels per day allocated by the cartel in September to counter hurricane disruption to North American output. The cartel will hold an extraordinary meeting in January.
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/ 10 December 2005
The first shipload of aid for thousands of Vanuatu villagers forced from their homes by an erupting volcano arrived on Saturday at this remote South Pacific island. It arrived as some refugees began complaining of ill health at the largest evacuation centre.
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/ 10 December 2005
Investigators studied the crash scene on Friday after a passenger jet trying to land amid heavy snow plowed off a Midway International airport runway and into a Chicago street, killing a six-year-old boy in a car. Ten other people, most of them on the ground, were injured in the Thursday-evening accident.
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/ 10 December 2005
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which control one in five parliamentary seats after spectacular gains in recent polls, says it is ready to break a long-standing taboo and engage in contacts with Washington, which welcomed the results of Egypt’s month-long parliamentary polls.
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/ 10 December 2005
Nigerian police on Friday arrested the governor of an oil-rich state who has been charged with money-laundering by a British court, officials said. Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha skipped bail in London last month and escaped home to Bayelsa state in southern Nigeria’s unruly Niger Delta, where his arrival triggered a political crisis.